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I was hoping to get my dvd player running in progressive but im running into problems already.

I have a component lead which i bought, and i have pugged it into my dvd player (matching the colours red green blue) and the other ends i have matched into the supplied adapter red/red - green/white - yellow/blue, its then chained into the VGA to DVI converter.

Ive set my TV to pixel plus 2, enabled progressive scan on the dvd player (samsung p345d) and then manually selected DVI using the input select button....

I DO get an image, but its PINK!!!!!!

There are no buttons on my dvd player, or any more menu options to change anything here.

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The widescreen switching sucks. I think someone had gotten a callcenter-type answer from Philips that "it was not implemented on this model".

When the TV is in the auto-format mode (first on the list) it will recognize widescreen and switch to the correct mode. But when it receives a 4:3 picture it won't go to 4:3 mode but to the distorted "Super zoom" mode. There is nothing that can be done about this.
Older Philips sets allowed an automatic switch between 4:3 and 16:9 but this one doesn't.

Obviously this is a design mistake (maybe motivated by their "Sense and Simplicity" marketdroids).

Firmware updating does not seem to be simple. There is no RS232 port for firmware updates from a PC, as on some other manufacturer's models. I read about swapping EPROMS, but looking at the schematic it looks like the firmware could be flashed after toggling a switch internal to the TV, and connecting some programming gear to an internal connector.

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Looks like its manual switching then.
That sucks.
The Auto format doesn't actually switch to widescreen as it should.
If you look closely, it does exactly the same to the widescreen picture as it does to the 4:3 picture. ie it stretches the edges more than the center, which is not really acceptable.
If i'd known of these problems before i bought the tv i might not have bought it.

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The Auto format doesn't actually switch to widescreen as it should.
If you look closely, it does exactly the same to the widescreen picture as it does to the 4:3 picture. ie it stretches the edges more than the center, which is not really acceptable.

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This does not happen on my (2.1) set. When it is on automatic and a widescreen source is applied, it switches to the correct mode. But when it is set to 4:3 to correctly handle a 4:3 source, it ignores the widescreen signal and remains in 4:3 mode.
So you need to toggle at least between 4:3 and automatic to have reasonable picture.

I don't like it either. But it seems one cannot expect such details to be correct and have a great picture quality at the same time. No idea why...